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Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!
Yes, on the Third Monday of Pascha yesterday morning – May 12 (NS)! – some snow stuck to the ground in higher elevations of southwestern Pennsylvania (link may break), the Commonwealth where I and alot of other Orthodox live!
This discussion goes back to my recent post occasioned by the (Western) Good Friday Blizzard in the U.S. Midwest,* pointing out that the (small-T) traditional Western association of Easter with Spring is actually more likely to be fulfilled by Orthodox Pascha – for the next few thousand years anyway, if the Lord doesn't return in Glory first – because at this time it's usually one, two, or five weeks later than Easter, and will gradually get later vis a vis the seasons, over time, until of course it reaches Northern Autumn, at which point it will start moving back behind the other way, so to speak, toward Northern Spring. Anyway, that means it's alot less likely to snow in the Northern Hemisphere, or be wintry-cold; not impossible, just less likely!
I've been prevented by circumstances from replying to A Simple Sinner's challenge there until now, among them my own continued study of the Calendar situation within Orthodoxy, and between Orthodoxy and Catholicism / Protestantism. What I've learned is that Old Calendar Christianity – ie, most of Christendom before 1582 – essentially knowingly sacrificed, and continues to sacrifice, a little bit of astrological** accuracy in favor of perfect Liturgical convenience. (As one calendar expert opines [quoted here], "However accurate we might try to make them, calendars should be judged not by their scientific sophistication, but by how well they serve social needs." Or as Another putteth it, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.")
As a result of the determination of the Orthodox Paschalion or scheduling of Easter during the first Christian millennium (pursuant to the decision of the First Ecumenical Synod, the Council of Nicea, in AD 325), Western and Byzantine Christian worship services fell into a 532-year cycle discussed briefly and relatively simply here with relatively little polemic. NB: Father Alexander, with the staunchly Old-Calendar Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, misspoke at one point: the 19-year cycle is lunar, and the 28-year cycle is solar, not the other way around. Vis a vis the Julian calendar of dates and leap years, the dates of the moon phases calculated for planning purposes – approximate to the observed phases – follow a sequence that repeats every 19 Julian years. And as the same linked paragraph also notes, Julian dates recur on the same days of the week every 28 years. 28 times 19 equals 532, the two cycles resynchronizing together every 532 years.
It wasn't just about Easter / Pascha. For medieval Byzantine Christians, nearly every day of the year was – and for all Orthodox still is – describable in relation to Pascha, whether it's a day of a week of the Triodion (pre-Lent), the Great Fast (Lent), Holy Week, the actual Pascha Season, or weeks after Pentecost for the rest of the year and early the following year until the Triodion comes around again. Most people don't make this connection – it took me a while – but literally every day is a Moveable Feast! For medieval Western Christians, only the Season(s) of Advent / Christmas / Epiphany were taken out of the relationship to Easter, days of these weeks being defined specially. (Byzantine Christians didn't have such a liturgical Advent [just our Nativity Fast], nor an Epiphany / Theophany 'season' really.) When I was going through Catholic schools and seminaries, even "Ordinary Time" was discussed Pentecostally in terms of "the life of the Spirit in the Church," even if the name "Ordinary Time" seems like "generic/not exciting"!
Therefore, for Byzantine and High-Church Western Christians then and today still, any given day has two aspects. Easterners characterize these as the Menaion and the Paschalion, ie, the Fixed and the Moveable – the commemoration of the numerical calendar date, and that of the relation to Pascha. (This is why some of us consider it imprecise to call the Old Calendar as used in most of the Orthodox Church "the Julian Calendar." Caesar didn't know about the Resurrection of Christ, because JC – the earlier one who only thought he was god – died too soon! OC Orthodox' Menaion is Julian, but the Paschalion is Hebrew.) Westerners traditionally thought of them a little differently, the Liturgical Season (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost) or "Temporal Cycle," and the saint's feast of the numerical calendar date otherwise, the "Sanctoral Cycle."
Why is all this important? Because as I said, the sequence of services – not just Eucharistic Liturgy, but also the Hours and some other Church services – repeated every 532 years. Each day's services were also complicated by multiple commemorations on many days of the year, and because of the Menaion and Paschalion (to use the Eastern terms) seeming to jump with regard to each other yearly, a priest needed help putting together any given day's services. He didn't invent them himself eventually, but had the accumulated Holy Tradition in this regard to guide him. As Fr. Alexander said in the linked article, for Orthodox the key to this (big-T) Tradition is called the Typikon (or Typicon), a big book that describes all the possible combinations of feasts and fasts for the 532-year cycle. ISTM the Church of Rome had something similar whose most common name seems to have been the Ordinarius, the basis of the Ordo, although as this (old) Catholic Encyclopedia article emphasizes, it varied a bit with the addition of local, regional, or national feasts, or those pertaining to a particular religous or monastic order, and their interaction with the universal (Latin) feasts; this is also true in Orthodoxy, without vitiating the reliance on the Typicon as a whole. Examples of Orthodox versions of the annual extracts from the Ordinarius that were eventually printed by dioceses, provinces, nations, and orders of the Church of Rome (as the CE discusses) include these from the (Old Calendar) Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and the "2008 Tipic" currently available on the homepage of the OCA's (New Calendar) Romanian diocese. (I don't know if all the OCA's dioceses do their own Orders of Divine Services; the Romanian diocese's commemorations might vary from those of the rest of the OCA due to their Romanian traditions, most of the rest of the OCA being of Russian or Carpatho-Russian heritage. And Alaska is their only remaining OC diocese, so its Menaion would differ from most of the rest of that jurisdiction [though they also have a few dozen OC parishes in other dioceses].)
So what? I believe Fr. Alexander exaggerates when he complains that parishes and jurisdictions on the Orthodox New Calendar "throw the Typicon in the trash." IIUC, they will only gradually, over the centuries, accumulate combinations of feast-days not currently covered by the Traditional Orthodox Typikon. But most usage of the Typicon t/Traditionally didn't consist of the 'dartboard' approach he and others often employ – impressively – to prove its usefulness, but instead just marching through it day by day, week by week. The Typikon in a sense was the calendar, covering both Menaion and Paschalion. The same for the Ordinarius in the West. I can't find discussion of the impact of the Gregorian Calendar reform on the Ordinarius and the Ordo, but since the Western Church went from a 532-year cycle to a nearly 6-million-year one, it has had to require increasing intervention by Rome to account for unaccounted-for combinations of universal (Latin) and other feasts, a significant departure from Tradition. Or massive depletion of feasts from the calendar, as has happend in the last few generations, with the liturgical "reform's" increased focus on the Seasons, and the 'lay-off' of certain well-known but ancient Saints now questioned, such as Christopher and Philomena, and the Great-Martyr George for God's sake! (Sorry, I almost never take God's Name in vain; but here, is it?! In any case, Orthodox often include prayers and especially hymns from more than one saint-of-the-day, as well as from the season, in Liturgy, similar to what the Tridentine Mass did.) As Dr. Roman points out in the linked article, this approach too is highly not-Orthodox – and he's an Eastern Catholic! Or even a dramatic simplification of the calendar and approach to feasts: for instance, I have no idea what most of this even means, since I have no memory of the Latin Liturgy before Vatican II. "Semi-double of the Second Class"?!! Today Latin observances are in order of increasing importance: Commemorations (ie, de-emphasized Optional Memorials during Lent), Optional Memorials, Obligatory Memorials, Feasts, and Solemnities … period. In fairness, I don't know what most of the Orthodox Orders of Services I linked to above are talking about either, since I haven't had a chance to study the finer points of Orthodox Liturgy yet. But I've probably seen or heard it in church, and I know it's all hugely valued by Orthodox Holy Tradition, so much that if you touch the Liturgy, there's rioting in the streets of Greece, even deaths … or (successful) mass resistance to Communist-backed "renovationism" in the USSR in the '20s. (I never heard that in "History of the Soviet Union" in college!) And again in fairness, as Fr. Alexander points out, in the Orthodox New Calendar aka Revised Julian, there's no cycle, it's completely open-ended, so that it will require updating at the beginning of just about every century by dioceses or jurisdictions or synods.
Long story short, nearly all the world's Orthodox keep the Traditional Orthodox Paschalion,*** and the overwhelming majority of the world's Orthodox keep the Traditional Orthodox Calendar aka Julian (though a minority in the Western world), among many, many other reasons, because this Menaion and Paschalion are, mathematically speaking, internally perfect. They trade one day every 134 years vis a vis the sun and stars and climatic seasons, for the convenience of continuing to follow the Services sanctified by centuries of Orthodox Fathers and Mothers of the Church, Saints, and the All-Holy Spirit of God, without requiring any more novel Hierarchical intervention than necessary (eg, when new Saints are added to the calendar), or the gutting of the calendar or its feasts and Saints (most of the world's Orthodox treat their Saint's name-day more importantly than their "birthday according to the flesh"), or of the Liturgical Tradition itself. And it's not rare among Orthodox to express doubt that the Lord will delay His Return in Glory long enough to let us seriously worry about Pascha in Northern Autumn – though if He does, there's always the Southern Hemisphere! (I guess then they'll trade kielbasa at the parish Pascha bash after late-night Liturgy, for "shrimps on the barbie"! Or wait, they're shellfish and not part of the Fast. You get what I mean though….)
Think of it computerwise: The raw data are (1) the universal calendar, (2) the elements of the Liturgies (Eucharist, Hours, etc.), (3) a national or regional calendar, and (4) a local calendar. The Typikon or Ordinarius is/was the database assembled from these raw data. Holy Tradition is/was the software. And the annual Ordo's or other printouts are the output. Michael Purcell (Orthodox) says his Menologion 3.0 software (both calendars) is ready for download and use on your computer, but generally speaking, the Typikon is in some ways similar to that, and in other ways different, as you could see sampled at the Alaskan and Romanian links above. To really see it computerwise, a Melkite Catholic priest (Gregorian Calendar) has computerized (5.6 MB) an unofficial software version of his diocese's typicon for the next 1,000 years(!), and although he says the Hours will be added in a software update expected at the end of next year, the list of options just for Eucharist is more than the Menologion provides, because the Menologion isn't intended to provide those things.
(*–As well as part of a long-term ongoing attempt to get my head around Orthodox calendar stuff for the sake of explaining it here.)
(**–As they called it a long time ago.)
(***–Metropolitan KALLISTOS [Ware] in The Orthodox Church says Finland's Orthodox are required by the government to follow the Gregorian Calendar, ie, not even the Revised Julian. I don't know why Constantinople's Estonians do, representing one in eight Orthodox in that country.)

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Matt Damon To Save Civilization (With His Voice) In 'Plan B'
He has pushed reusable water bottles, done many a PSA, and even robbed a casino… now, eco-celeb Matt Damon will be lending his voice to help save the planet, and the human race!
Damon will be narrating the new PBS documentary Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, the latest installment in the "Journey to Planet Earth" series. The 90-minute doc is based on the book by climate crusader Lester Brown, and discusses the very real impact of climate change, and what we all must do to prevent future catastrophes. Joining Lester Brown and Matt Damon in the documentary are Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, former Governor and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, and others.
This sort of work is nothing new for Damon, who backs the eco-activist site Water.org, has worked with OneXOne, and was recently given a Critics' Choice Award for his charitable work.
The documentary looks fascinating, and aims to provide "a glimpse into a new and emerging economy based upon renewable resources as well as strategies to avoid the growing threat of climate change." Lester Brown seems to have some ambitious but realistic solutions, so let's hope this plan goes into action.
The film will premiere on PBS on March 30th at 10pm Eastern.


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Graham Motion-trained Coup wins Hilltop Stakes
Trainer: 'She ran super'
Augustin Stable's Coup carried John Velazquez to his third winner on Friday's Black-Eyed Susan Day card, capturing the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico Race Course with a strong stretch run.
Seanchai and Anna Sophia battled for the lead in the 1 1/16 -mile test on the firm turf but could not hold off Coup in the run to the finish line. Coup prevailed by a length over Seanchai while running the distance in 1:42.71. Ainsley finished third.
"She did it pretty easy, kind of stalking the speed. When I pulled her out she was there. She takes the lead and she wants to wait, so there's more there than what she gave me. I think she'll get better," Velazquez said.
Trained by Graham Motion, Coup had broken her maiden in her previous race at Gulfstream Park on a sloppy main track. The daughter of Empire Maker paid $5 to win.
"She ran super. She ran like I hoped she would," Motion said. "She doesn't want to get to the lead too early because she gets to looking around like she did in Florida. Johnny rode her confidently."
"Kendrick rode a winning ride. It was a solid pace. She ran good," said Leigh Delacour, trainer of Seanchai, which placed second.
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LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused "hard-right" U.S. politicians on Tuesday of pressing European credit card firms to block more than $50 million of donations to the website that published thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables.
Assange, speaking to reporters at the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he took refuge in June to avoid extradition to Sweden, said the credit card companies' action had forced WikiLeaks to reduce the volume of documents it posted online.
Assange lamented a preliminary ruling by the European Commission on Tuesday that it was unlikely Visa Europe, MasterCard Europe and American Express Co had violated EU anti-trust rules with their blocks on processing WikiLeaks donations.
Assange said MasterCard had acknowledged in filings with the European Commission it had spoken to the staffs of Joseph Lieberman, an independent U.S. senator who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Republican Representative Peter King, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee.
This was evidence, Assange said, that "hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks".
He said the action had blocked 95 percent of WikiLeaks' donations from Europe and cost it at least $50 million.
Lieberman and King were not immediately reachable for comment.
Assange jumped bail in June after exhausting appeals in British courts against extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault against two women.
Speaking in the embassy's gilt-corniced conference room, Assange said his stay there had been "difficult in many ways" but he had been able to continue his work.
Any resolution of the standoff would be "a matter of diplomacy", he told the press conference.
Assange, 41, showed no outward sign of the health problems that Ecuadorean officials say have plagued him.
He refused to comment on his health or how long he expects to stay in the embassy, declaring those subjects "off-topic".
Wearing a dark suit and white shirt with embroidery around the collar, Assange showed a video montage of U.S. politicians and commentators decrying him as a "high-tech terrorist" and "criminal".
DataCell, a company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, complained to the European Commission after Visa Europe, MasterCard Europe and American Express stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks in December 2010. Their decisions followed criticism by the United States of WikiLeaks' release of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables.
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Fulfilling all those earlier prophecies—and having bested Jason Segel in a competition of "Feats Of Goofy White Guy-ness" on the set of Jeff Who Lives At Home, presumably—Ed Helms is all but confirmed as the lead in New Line's attempt to reboot the Vacation franchise, according to Variety and everyone, months ago. Of course, Helms had previously denied starring in the project from Horrible Bosses' John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who will direct from their script), but it still seemed like a given considering that the duo explicitly called for an all-grown-up Rusty Griswold who is, like his father before him, "an everyman, goodhearted, maybe a little bit of a doofus," and Steve Carell is mostly into movies where he walks around in a wounded daze right now. Though, given the shape-shifting that Rusty undergoes across the series, perhaps it's just that Helms meant he plays but one of his many incarnations within the film, Rusty's "everyman" face constantly molding and reshaping itself as it cycles through thousands of doofus white guy contours. Perhaps if we freeze-frame at just the right time, we will even see ourselves.
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Beware of cold viruses even during summertime
Is it just me or do summer colds seem much worse than winter colds? And why do we get colds during the summer anyway?
The sun is out, windows are open and almost everyone is outside and active. It just doesn't seem like we should be getting a "cold" when it is hot.
So let's set the facts straight concerning summer colds. Although not as common during the summer months, colds are caused by viruses and can occur any time of year. This year alone there will be more than 1 billion colds in the United States. Adults acquire an average of two to four colds per year, and young children will suffer from an average of six to eight colds per year. That's a lot of down time suffering from cold symptoms.
There are a variety of cold-producing viruses such as the rhino-, corona- and parainfluenza that cause upper-respiratory infections primarily during the winter months. However, a new virus is introduced during the summer months.
The pesky enterovirus, which can often lead to complex and prolonged symptoms, spreads by coughing and sneezing, and by the fecal-to-oral route, often meaning that proper hand-washing technique has not been followed. The enterovirus can demonstrate the usual cold symptoms of runny nose, hacking cough, headache; low grade fever, and watery eyes. However, additional symptoms of diarrhea, along with sore throats and rashes may appear with the enterovirus.
So what do you need to know concerning a summer verses winter cold?
Winter cold viruses tend to make you feel really sick, and then after feeling miserable for five to seven days, it's pretty much over, whereas, summer colds just seem to go on and on.
One must also consider that if the symptoms act greater than the typical cold, you may have manifestations of an allergy or potential bacterial infection.
While we've already established that a cold is caused by a virus, allergy symptoms are an immune system response to allergens such as grass, pollen, dust, and dander from pets. A few distinguishing features of an allergy are itchiness of the mouth, eyes and throat. Also, the type of mucous drainage is often an indicator of a cold verses an allergy. A yellow mucus is typically seen with a cold, whereas, a thin, clear/ watery mucus drainage is usually seen with allergies.
A cold requires symptomatic care (rest, fluids, chicken noodle soup and early use of zinc supplement may shorten the symptomatic period) while an allergy requires an antihistamine medication (several non-sedating medications are available over the counter), nasal irrigation with sterile saline spray or a neti pot.
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This has not been a good week for Cryptic and Atari. After offering a discount on Star
Trek Online plus 60 days of additional gametime, the founding customers of the game lost their collective minds. The forums boiled over and don't appear to be simmering down yet. With the wounds still fresh, Medeor starts adding some salt.
I feel bad for people who have had their feelings hurt or feel that they have been ripped off. In reality though, does that change the actual game? My theory is that people who were on the fence about renewing their subscription see this as a way to go out in a blaze of glory, "I'm quitting because Atari and Cryptic have wronged me and all those around me, and I'm not going to stand for it." If you feel that strongly, then have at it.
Crytpic and Atari should feel the wrath of the player base to a degree commensurate with the misdeed. The fervor on the forums has taken it to a whole new level though. Maybe there should be a group hug. Maybe not. Read the rest of the Captain's Blog and find out.
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I hope somebody can explain the following IDA behaviour and suggest some solution.
This refers to IDA 6.1 running under Win7 x64. (No problems at all in 32-bit).
When I trace some 64-bit program (with lots of modules), most of the time I get one of the following error popups:
"oops! internal error 40208"
"irs_recv: The wait operation timed out."
If I use IDA 5.5 x64 instead, the message becomes:
"rpc event protocol error"
This is clearly a communication timeout but I have no idea where it comes from.
Only topic on it I found, pointed to armlinux_stub.plw which shouldn't apply to my case.
Also the title of an unreachable link refers to rpc_debmod.cpp which again should not apply.
Nothing in the system's event log and nothing obvious in IDA's log.
No blocking by the firewall and no difference if I disable the network controller.
It could relate to the module I'm modifying of course (but why IDA crashes?) but again I don't see anything.
No TLC in the module, I break when it loads and while I just look at it, I get the comms error.
The fact that it doesn't happen all the time, complicates it a bit.
I checked all the .NET Frameworks in the system and they are clean and properly registered.
What else could I be missing?
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Last year at this time, fans of "The Office" were in the midst of an uproar over the departure of Steve Carell's Michael Scott, whose final words were a silent mouthing of his sophomoric catchphrase, "That's what she said!"
His exit left the show's future uncertain. A year later, the eighth season is set to end Thursday with Dunder Mifflin Sabre at a new crossroads amid rumblings of fresh upheaval on- and off-screen. But there's hope for the show, if not necessarily for the Scranton, Pa., paper company branch: As the cast and writers proved in this first Scott-free season, "The Office" still works.
The early post-Carell episodes got off to a tentative start, perhaps a reflection of the tension and often bumpy shifting of roles that greet any major workplace shake-up. Seeming nice-guy milquetoast Andy Bernard's appointment as new office manager initially felt anti-climatic, especially after last season's parade of candidates for the post that included quirky characters played by, among others, Jim Carrey, Ray Romano and Ricky Gervais, the star and co-creator of the original UK version of the series.
This season has benefited from the addition of two of the interviewees – James Spader as the infuriatingly inscrutable Robert California, and Catherine Tate as neurotic New Age-double speaker Nellie Bertram, both of whom rose to upper management ranks. Appearances by Spader's California signaled a helping of comic menace, via a character who makes up mind games and creates unease as he goes along – most memorably at a raucous indoor pool party at his mansion where he revealed more than anyone cared to experience. The season soared in the second half as Tate's Bertram bulled her way through corporate headquarters in Florida to Andy's office, where she staged a passive-aggressive takeover.
Spader and Tate's characters injected the show with a re-energizing unpredictability – and familiarity. For all their cartoonish behavior, the duo feel very real to anyone who has worked for a boss bent on keeping employees off-balance. Still, the revelation this season has been Ed Helms' Andy, who transformed from a Michael Scott-light replacement to a resilient figure able to rebound from almost constant, sometimes self-inflicted humiliation (his disastrous garden party, a messy break-up, losing his job) to win back Erin and steal the paper company's biggest client.
Andy's business coup sets the stage for Thursday's season clincher, which, while free of the momentousness of Carell's goodbye, is expected to mark the end of Robert California's reign and bring more change. Mindy Kaling, an "Office" mainstay as a writer and as self-absorbed ditz Kelly Kapoor, is getting a show on Fox. A Dwight Schrute spinoff is said to be in the works for Rainn Wilson. Other cast members reportedly have yet to sign on for Season 9. Spade is through with the show and it's unclear whether Tate will return.
But as we learned this season, life at "The Office" goes on – and remains entertaining, if not always comfortable (That's what she said!). As we await Thursday's season finale, catch up with scenes from last week's episode below:
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Since the title of Sixth Street Playhouse's new musical production is Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash—with deliberate emphasis on the word "music"—audience members might be expecting a little more Johnny Cash than what shows up in this slapdash (though occasionally well-performed) jukebox revue. In the show, written by Richard Maltby Jr. and William Meade, and directed by Michael Fontaine, seven performers take turns singing 32 of the Man in Black's songs, with snippets of uneven narration (jumping oddly from first person to third with no rhyme or reason) that are passed from performer to performer like lyrics in a gospel tune. Short scenes from Cash's early life are reenacted here and there, with different actors playing Cash each time, creating a bit of initial confusion while serving to remind us that this show, after all, is not really about Johnny Cash; it's about Johnny Cash's songs.
Fortunately, his songs are great. One tends to forget what a sharp and twisted sense of humor Cash had, on prominent display in songs like "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart," "Dirty Old Egg-Suckin' Dog," the darkly comic murder ballad "Delia's Gone" and of course "A Boy Named Sue."
All of Cash's famous songs are here:
"I Walk the Line," "I've Been Everywhere," "Ring of Fire," "Jackson." The songs are arranged in thematically similar clusters, performed as blocks of music introduced with smatterings of biographical data, some of it unintentionally hilarious. The second-act cluster of prison songs ("Cocaine Blues," "Orleans Parish Prison" and "Folsom Prison Blues") is set up with a short speech allowing that, while Cash never actually served time in prison, he did go to jail a few times, and that was why he felt so strongly about telling the stories of murderers and thieves.
The strangest moment in the show comes right after a stirring full-ensemble rendition of "Why Me Lord?"—a true highlight—when the audience is told to sit tight for a moment and spend three minutes watching slides of Johnny Cash posters while the band, a tight, pleasing quartet led by music director Eddie Guthman, continues playing. Once the cast returns, dressed in concert finery, we're told that the rest of the show is more of a concert than what we've already seen (!?), and each of the performers proceeds to tell us how much they like Johnny Cash's music before singing a few more songs.
The cast is capable, though uneven. The women (Courtney Arnold, Shari Hopkinson and Heidi Lechner) handily out-belt the men (Jacques Archer, James Bryant, John Faulkner and Eric Chazankin), though Chazankin has one of the show's most entertainingly Cash-like moments, with his resonant, forceful performance of "Folsom Prison Blues." In the end, "Ring of Fire" could use a bit more fire—and perhaps a bit more Cash.
'Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash' runs Thursday&–Sunday through Feb. 13 at the Sixth Street Playhouse. Thursday&–Saturday at 8pm; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2pm. 52 W. Sixth St., Santa Rosa. $15&–$39. 707.523.4185.


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Plastic Crimewave's third annual Hollies drawing.
After waiting outside Laurie's Planet Of Sound from around 9:00 to 10:00AM on Record Store Day, I was waved inside by the friendly doorman and went straight to the counter with my wish list. The popular Lincoln Avenue record and pop culture store had already sold out of many of the special day's limited edition vinyl releases, but fortunately I was able still able to nab the four-song EP Revolution Of The Mind by The dB's; The Three O'Clock's Live At The Old Waldorf; and The Animals' The Animals Is Here. The staff was friendly and efficient, and I was quickly off to other RSD adventures.
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From the President—September 2005
I could fill pages with IYHA news and happenings this month. This is a busy time of year. What excites me is the enthusiasm that I see at the different organizing events that are occurring each week. The parades were wonderful. The turnout of players to skate along and hand out candy and fliers was fantastic. And the "Puck". Have you seen the "Puck"? Barry Rog built a seven foot wide plywood puck to go over Brian Johnson's go-cart. It was a big hit in the last two parades. Thanks Brian and Barry. (Free plug: Have your cabinets built in New Brighton by Barry Rog.) The Registration's have been great. Now I'm seeing the process from a whole new angle. Pat O'Connor improves the process each year. I'm sure many of you saw the Irondale Girls players at your Back-To-School-Night at the elementary schools. They looked impressive at Pinewood school. A job well done by the girls program. I wish that I could list every name of every player that helped at those events and the parades. Thank You!
More important dates coming soon:
Saturday, September 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Sunny Square Neighborhood Center - the last Registration date
Monday, September 12 - first ice time for the Boys Program
Thursday, September 15 - first ice time for the Girls Program
Thursday, September 15 - Board Meeting
Saturday, October 1 - first ice time for the Initiation Program
More things that will be happening later in the month and into October include a "IYHA Night" at Letterman's Sports and a IYHA information meeting at the new Schwan's Center to find out more about the plans for expansion at the SuperRink and the fate of Columbia Arena. You will get special notices about both of these events. Try-outs for the Girls and Boys traveling teams will happen in October. Complete schedules for warm-ups and try-outs are available at Registration on the 10th.
Other good news for our players includes goalie training and free equipment. Brad Nowak will offer instruction to all of our goalies at special sessions this season beginning on September 17th. This will be a positive step for IYHA, but each team's coaches will need to devote more attention to goalie development as well. The free equipment program headed by Brian Johnson includes substantial new and used equipment for our youngest new players. Hopefully this will help families get their son or daughter started in youth hockey and maybe develop a star that wouldn't have otherwise even tried the sport. This equipment will be distributed to those who need it by Brian through the Initiation Program.
Look through the names of the Board Members in this newsletter. They have all been especially busy lately. They are the movers and shakers of IYHA. I'm not a mover and shaker yet. A special thanks to Jeanne, Niki and Brian for all they do.
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Thank you to all of the volunteers at Stockyard Days cleanup!!
We were told that when we were finished, it appeared as though there was never an activity there! Great job, everybody! Those that participated:
Mularie Family: Ray, Audrey, Casey, and Jessica
Bruce Mason
Linda Kolstad
Welty Family: Tom, Theresa, Tommy and Annie
Gjere Family: Greg, Niki, Jimmy and Megan
Muldoon Family: John Muldoon, Kelly Adams, Patrick and Molly Muldoon
The Sportsmen's Club will contribute to our Association for our volunteer efforts. Thank you!
From Brian Johnson, Vice President IYHA
Hi to all,
Summer parades: IYHA had a great time rollerblading in the parades. Thanks to all the IYHA players that bladed and handed out candy! Special thanks to Mike Zosel and his family (printed and distributed about 350 informational handouts for VillageFest), Jim Cich and his family (provided transportation for the VillageFest and Stockyard parades), Tom Welty and his family (provided transportation and water cooler for Festival in the Park) and to Randy Bortot (procured a new parade banner and brought the jerseys). Also, thanks to all the parents and friends who helped out. All your efforts are appreciated and made for a fun time.
Did you happen to see the large Irondale hockey puck leading our entry in Stockyard Days and Festival in the Park? This puck measured 7 feet in diameter and was made by Barry Rog, Jackie Rog, Amanda Rog, Mike Honkanen and Bridget Honkanen. Thanks for all your hard work on this neat parade float!
Parade Trivia: 43 bags of candy distributed. 1100 info flyers handed out (350 at VillageFest and 750 at Stockyard Days).
Equipment Loan Program: IYHA was fortunate to be selected by the Minnesota Wild 10,000 Rinks Foundation for 10 sets of starter gear. IYHA families are continuing to donate used/out-grown gear. Keep the donations coming! We hope to get this equipment to deserving 1st year skaters. The goal is to recruit more players and keep our costs lower!
SuperRink Spectacular Tournament: IYHA and Mounds View YHA co-host this tournament every year. The revenues generated from this tournament keep us from doing a lot of fundraising. The SRS tournament is played on Thanksgiving weekend and also in January. The 2nd planning meeting was held on 30-August. This is a large tournament and we need volunteers to help with certain tasks. Please consider volunteering so we can make this great tournament even better this year. Contact me or Sue Kranz if you are interested in help with the tradeshow/vendors/raffle. Other volunteers are needed too! Bring your creative ideas!
Fundraisers. IYHA has a couple of fundraising opportunities. Anyone want to explore and see if they may work for us?
Thanks, Brian
From Tom Welty, the District Representative:
The folks at TC District, as you can imagine, have been busy planning the upcoming season. Scheduling meetings, coaches meetings, Presidents meetings, CEP training, etc. are all in the works in preparation of another fine season. But most of the recent district meetings have once again been dominated by discussions of potential plans by Minnesota Hockey to eliminate TC District. (Or, the "repurposing" of TC District as I like to call it). (Hey, someone in our school district went to all the trouble of making up a new word, the least we can do is keep using it). The latest information is this: Minnesota Hockey formed a committee made up of district directors and gave them the task of looking at re-districting. When Minnesota Hockey holds their fall meetings September 16-18 (At the Holiday Inn – Select, Brooklyn Park, in case anyone want to go yell) there is a good chance that this committee will recommend and the full board will vote on a redistricting plan that eliminates TC District and spreads out the former TC District associations in new districts. Irondale would return to a slightly modified District 2. The change would take place beginning with the 2006-07 season. As you can imagine, there is opposition to this plan, mostly from folks within TC District who contend that eliminating TC District will ultimately kill inner-city hockey and that the solution is a strengthened TC District that includes all inner-city associations as well as smaller first and second tier associations (like us). Informed observers within TC District tell me that there is a 50/50 chance that it will happen. Informed observers outside TC District say the chance are greater than that. We should know after the Sept. 16-18 meeting. If you would like more information or would like to see the full redistricted proposal, contact me. (Contact information is elsewhere in this newsletter).
From Mark Mohar, Boys Program Coordinator:
IYHA tryouts are conducted under the direction of the Boy's Coordinator with assistance from the ACE Coordinator. Independent evaluators (who have no players currently trying out at any Boy's Traveling level) are selected to observe and evaluate all skaters at the Traveling levels. The on-ice tryout coach has no bearing on team selection or evaluation.
Team selection is based on performance in two areas: drills and scrimmage.
Drills are provided by the on-ice tryout coach and are designed to measure and exhibit speed and quickness, balance, stickhandling, passing, and shooting skills as well as hustle.
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Goalies will be evaluated ongoing by the selected evaluators in areas of quickness, agility, positioning, hustle, proper technical movements, and reaction.
Attendance at all sessions is required. In extenuating circumstances a tryout may be missed. The impact of that will be subject to review by the Boy's Program Coordinator, ACE Coordinator, and evaluators.
The number of players on each team will be based on the overall registration numbers for that particular level. Our goal is a minimum of 12 skaters per team and a maximum of 15.
Once the tryouts are completed, results will be compiled and initial team placement will take place. This will consist of approximately 80% of the team placed solely on raw rankings. The remainder of the roster will be determined based on input/discussion between the head coach, evaluators, tryout coordinator, and ACE coordinator. For example for a team of 14 skaters 80% represents 11 players. Eleven players will be placed and discussion will revolve around the remaining 3 to be named. This discussion will consist of specific team needs and who best can fill those needs. This last step is to avoid a team having a glut of any one position and a dearth in others as well as an overabundance of certain skill sets and a deficiency in others. The eligible players to be added in this manner will only be twice as many as spots to fill. For example if three spots need to be filled then only the next six in player rankings will be considered. The head coach will not be involved in discussions unless their child has been placed.
Upon completion of these steps players will be notified of team placement. This season players will be notified Wednesday, October 19th,
There have been several teams that have sponsors for their teams. These are listed below. This part of the newsletter will continue throughout the rest of the IYHA season. Please notify Niki Gjere of any additions or corrections. (Please forward information about websites and addresses, etc.) Many thanks to our sponsors!
IYHA: **Champp's New Brighton**Culvers of St. Anthony**New Brighton Sportsmen's Club**Lake Region Hockey Association**
Pee Wee B: **Quality Post Service**
Squirt A: *Billman-Hunt Chapel**W.W. Goetsch Associates**Response Fire Protection Company**
10U A: **Fuji Ya**
Once again, many, many thanks to our sponsors! Please support them! When you see them, please tell them you are from Irondale Youth Hockey.
IYHA Board Meetings are open meetings.
Please feel free to come to the meetings. If you wish to have a copy of any information which is distributed at any meeting, please email or call Niki and it will be mailed to you. Upcoming dates for 2005 Board meetings are the
third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Our meetings have moved to New Brighton Family Service Center.
(Mounds View City Hall is undergoing remodeling.)
September 15, October 20, November 17, and December 15.
NOTE: If you wish to be on the agenda for the meeting, please contact Jim Cich.
Lake Region Board Meetings:
Lake Region Hockey meetings are open meetings. Contact Jeanne Falconer for dates and times of the next meetings.
Irondale Youth Hockey Association (IYHA) Board Members 2004-2005
Jim Cich
651-295-1078 (cell)
Vice President
Brian Johnson
Jeanne Falconer
763-784-5520 (h)
763-458-5946 (cell)
651-486-1235 (w)
Niki Gjere
612-273-6439 (w)
651-270-8551 (cell)
612-527-7437 (pager)
Ice Commissioner
Renae Olesen
763-784-6864 (h)
Boys Program Coordinator
Mark Mohar
651-639-1908 (h)
Girls Program Coordinator
Chris Tahti
651-636-6152 (h)
Initiation Coordinator
Cheryl Mason
651-639-1543 (h)
Randy Bortot
763-784-9557 (h)
952-475-4045 (Work)
Pat O'Connor
651-636-1081 (h)
District Representative
Tom Welty
763-780-4865 (h)
612-508-4833 (cell)
Non-Board Position:
ACE Coordinator
John Donovan
651-786-5200ext2480 (w)
651-592-1187 (h)
IYHA Board of Directors meeting August 18, 2005. Note: These minutes have not been approved. They will be reviewed, corrected as needed, and approved at the next regular Board of Directors Meeting.
Board members present: Jim Cich, Brian Johnson, Jeanne Falconer, Niki Gjere, Renae Olesen, Mark Mohar, Chris Tahti, Cheryl Mason, Randy Bortot, Pat O'Connor, Tom Welty.
Guest: Doug Loahr.
Meeting called to order by President Jim Cich at 6:33 p.m. in the Mounds View City Hall conference room. Agenda reviewed. Minutes reviewed; motion to approve as presented (RB) (CT), motion carried.
Old Business:
· ACE Coordinator Description (final review): Jim Cich. Reviewed June 16, 2005 version. Presented for motion to approve. Motion to approve June 16, 2005 version of ACE Coordinator Job Description (NG) (RO); motion carried.
· Planning: Mark, John and Jim have talked about plan for warm ups and try-outs. Jeff Martin will do warm-ups for boys. John has a time conflicts between boys and girls ice for warm-ups and evaluations—will ask Jeff Martin to pick up extra with the boys. John is planning to have monthly meetings with coaches. Girls program is set for warm ups and evaluations. Working with Cheryl for Imitation. HEP meetings will be in September. Will have 5-6 different development sessions for girls throughout the winter.
· Board and Specialty Job Descriptions: Motion to add section under Treasurer to include being a member of the Lake Region Hockey board, delete references to D2 in District Representative section (CT) (RB); motion carried.
· S.K.A.T.E. Program: Tom Welty. The S.K.A.T.E. (Skaters Keep Achieving Through Education) program information is out for this year. The program started to support skaters in education. There has been an evolution of the requirements for documentation, so it now requires only a verbal acknowledgement of the skater meeting the grade point requirements to qualify for SKATE. This year, the program has been privatized. In order for us to participate it will require us to pay approximately $150 for our traveling skaters to participate. Discussion. Motion to fund $150.00 for the SKATE program (CT) (PO), motion carried. Will use funds from the fund raiser at Culvers or seek sponsorship for these funds. There is a tight deadline, so it was important to vote at this meeting. Will ask for a volunteer to run this program.
· Board and Specialty Budgets: all budgets have been received. Will pull all of the budgets together and look for gaps and redundancies. Will present at future meeting for vote.
· Thanksgiving Tournament: Brian Johnson. Will add another C Bracket for the January tournament. Tournament Committee will meet in mid-August. Dean (Mounds View) placed ad in Let's Play Hockey. Volunteer sign up—Jeanne, Pat, Renae and Niki will pull the volunteers together.
· Tournaments: Program Coordinators will pull tournaments together for the teams. Will work on 3 for girls and 3-4 for Boys. We still are owed a refund from Cloquet for two teams from last year—they were unable to participate in the tournament, and we will receive that credit from them. Will not book tournaments during the time frame for our Thanksgiving and January Tournaments.
New Business: Board Roundtable
President: Jim Cich. Jim will contact Tadd Toumie about the Rink Advisory Task Force. He had agreed to chair this group, and it has not yet met. There is a lot of work going on in the community—Edison, Super Rink, Columbia, Arden Hills, etc.
Vice President: Brian Johnson. Festival in the Park Parade is Sunday August 21st at 3:00 p.m., Tom Welty will drive. Stockyard Days—need to give a big thank you to Barry Rog—he made a hockey puck to fit around a go-cart! It was very creative and added a lot to the parades! He has his own cabinet shop in New Brighton. The parade participants distributed 750 flyers about IYHA. Equipment loan: Thank you will go out tomorrow to Minnesota Wild. Please get used equipment in by September 10th (the last registration). Beau Bailey—there is an opportunity to request donations for equipment, will submit this letter tomorrow.
Treasurer and Lake Region: Jeanne Falconer. Distributed treasurer's report. Lake Region—Organization has been turned around. We can turn ice bills in to them with a written request for payment. They can no longer send us money without a specific request. We could request clinics be paid for by Lake Region.
Secretary: Niki Gjere. Newsletter deadline is September 1st. Clean up went very well at Stockyard Days—one comment was on Saturday morning when one of the Stockyard days board members was driving up—it appeared as though nothing had occurred on Friday evening—it was so clean! Pictures for teams / individuals will be set for November.
Registration Coordinator: Pat O'Connor. Need screening forms for Board Members. Will have sign for used equipment donation at next registration. Data is being inputted at the time of registration. Thank you to everybody for their help.
Twin Cities District Representative: Tom Welty. Distributed MN Hockey directory information update. TC District wants to make changes to governing rules. Change rescheduling fee from $50 to $100. Winning teams need to fax score sheet within 3 days. Fair play point language. Associations will be fined $100 per worker if no show—they want names of workers 24 hours before the activity. Schwan's is offering a fundraising opportunity throughout the state. Distributed "important dates" document.
Redistricting: There have been more discussions about redistricting. TC District is fighting this—concern about this being the death of inner city hockey. Change would be during the 2006-2007 season. See attached for the draft of proposed new districts.
Ice Commissioner: Renae Oleson. Giving back ice we do not want. There was a lot of ice given back by one of the Association—will check if we can take some of that. We have plenty of ice.
Initiation Coordinator: Cheryl Mason. Draft of initiation manual distributed. Steve Kracht will review and give feedback. Cheryl is willing to help other Board members develop their manuals. Can do the Little Chippers at the MN Wild—will get that set up. Setting up talks at the schools to promote youth hockey.
Question asked about younger players playing up. Rules are similar for all boys; we have the numbers and don't need to do this. In the girls program, however, we do not have full teams, so when we have full teams, will not play up. Girls program is a newer program.
Girls Program Coordinator: Chris Tahti. Recruiting is going well. New kids at all levels—we say this at registration. U14—must register with IYHA. Will go through the Twin Cities Co-operative for tryouts. Will have 1 A team and 2 B teams. Pay for warm ups and evaluations at Twin Cities Cooperative.
Boys Program Coordinator: Mark Mohar. Holding coaches interviews. Emailed out the schedule. Goalie training—all coordinators can send their goalies to training. We will try to have all the tournaments picked and ready for next meeting.
Equipment Manager: Randy Bortot. No new information. Equipment disposal—will take old equipment (goalie) to Play It Again Sports. Some of this equipment is over 15 years old.
Additional Reports: ACE Coordinator Update: John Donovan. Already discussed the updates.
Guest: Doug Loahr. Concerns expressed about how many hours we have for warm-ups and evaluations. Will be paying people to be on the ice with the kids. Can we get kids done earlier so the coaches can work with their teams? Discussion. This is an ongoing discussion—some believe not enough evaluation periods, some believe too many. Will see how it goes again this year and will receive feedback from the coaches.
Motion to adjourn the meeting: (NG) (CM). Motion carried. Meeting adjourned by President Jim Cich at 8:47 p.m.
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Hands-On With Bioshock Infinite Clash In The Clouds Arena DLC (Out Today)
When Irrational Games asked us to come to Boston for a preview of the long-awaited Bioshock Infinite DLC, I went in with some expectations. I was anticipating that the first pack would introduce a new character (and maybe a new companion), embroiled in a richly woven narrative. I also expected that we wouldn't see the content go live for at least a few weeks. I was wrong all the way down the line.
The first Bioshock Infinite DLC, Clash in the Clouds will be out in just a few hours (12 pm Pacific on Steam and rolling out on Xbox 360 and PS3 throughout the day). And while it isn't entirely devoid of narrative, the emphasis isn't on character, and the concept of Columbia's "setting" gives way to "level design." This is an arena mode that focuses on guns and vigors, and as someone who found this the least appealing part of the Bioshock Infinite experience, I was a bit underwhelmed.
Clash in the Clouds offers four maps that evoke different areas of the campaign. The Finktown Docks, Emporia, the Boardwalk, and the lush town center all make an appearance. Each map features skylines and tears changing across the total 60 different encounters, which keeps the challenge high.
"If a wave was going to be trivialized by having the skyline in there, then we pulled it out," lead game designer Forrest Dowling told me as an example. "In terms of the time spent in development before you stop and do bug fix, it was probably about 50-50. The first half was spent hashing out the spaces, like figuring out where the skylines were going to go and where we were going to place cover.
"The second half was spent making each wave really good, and figuring out which tears we wanted, what we wanted to do with skylines, etc. We did retune enemy and player damage a bit away from the base game, but I suspect that anybody but the most hardcore or systems designers would notice."
The combat is certainly competent, using traditional arena and horde mode mid-round restock mechanics. After each brief bout, players are sent back to the staging area, which includes free guns and ammo, vending machines to upgrade arms and vigors, and an infusion (boost of maximum health, shields, or vigor-powering salts) or piece of gear. A pop-up discloses the next encounter's "blue ribbon challenge" and enemy types, so players are able to prepare accordingly.
The blue ribbon challenges aren't necessary to progress, but accomplishing one of these bonus tasks awards extra cash. These are varied and keep things interesting from bout to bout. Using specific weapons, varying kill types, executing only headshots, avoiding headshot and heartshots, and using the skylines (or avoiding them) are all examples of types of challenges I faced.
The only enemies that aren't featured in Clash in the Clouds are Songbird and the Boys of Silence. In my time, I encountered soldiers, firemen, motorized patriots, sentry balloons, and handymen. Smart use of skylines and the available tears are crucial to success.
Clash in the Clouds offers different types of experiences to suit a variety of players. Players can continue on should they fail a round, but the blue ribbon challenge for that round and the leaderboard ranking for the entire run are forfeit. For those simply interested in working through the content, it's a perfectly suitable option. The competitive among us will find plenty of meat on the bone, with a deep challenge to push through an entire map without failure.
Cash isn't just used for upgrades, and Dowling wanted to make sure that players had something to do with their surpluses. Outside of the arena, the new Columbia Archaeological Society allows players to cash in for concept art, behind the scenes videos, the period versions of contemporary music, character models, and a neat surprise. There is a bit of narrative hidden in the gallery for players to find.
Thankfully, for those that are just interested in the concept art, videos, and music, one time through Clash in the Clouds should be enough. "If they spend all their money on every weapon and vigor upgrade, maybe they won't have enough for everything in the archaeological society," Dowling said. "If you just really wanted to focus on unlocking things, you could probably do it by the halfway point."
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If you've got a season pass, Clash in the Clouds will tide you over for a little while. It wasn't my cup of tea, but my love for Bioshock Infinite was in the narrative, not the action.
Additionally, beware of bugs. I was playing on the PS3 and encountered a freezing glitch that wiped my progress on the first map's encounter 14 of 15. A colleague playing on the Xbox 360 ran into a problem with the vending machine improperly recognizing a purchase, taking his money but not delivering the goods. These will likely get fixed, but as we were playing content only a day before release, it's reasonable to expect that people purchasing today might run into them.
Thankfully, the real meat of the extra content is coming in the final two packs. For more on that, read our preview of Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea.
Bioshock Infinite's Clash in the Clouds DLC is out later today for $5 and as part of the season pass.


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Manny Ruiz went from reporting the news to shaping how we receive it. The 43-year-old former journalist is now a first-rate media entrepreneur.
And where others are busy building their own brands, Ruiz is thinking bigger. He wants to build the brand of the Hispanic community and teach others how to go into business for themselves. He has a soft spot for Hispanic journalists eager to reinvent themselves because they fear traditional media companies may not be long for this world.
In just the past few years, the former crime reporter for The Miami Herald has become one of the leaders of the exciting trend of Hispanic digital marketing. One of his biggest accomplishments is called Hispanicize, a live and spicier version of a "Google hangout" that occurs every April in Miami. The gathering connects hundreds of like-minded people with high aspirations who want to take their creative pursuits and media ventures to the next level. It also helps dozens of companies reach Hispanic consumers, especially the young ones, where many of them live now — in the digital world.
If you're a Hispanic under 40 years old, and have a job in media, public relations or marketing, chances are you've heard about Hispanicize. If you haven't, and you're anywhere near South Florida this spring, just follow the sirens because the darned thing is on fire. Ruiz and Lance Rios of Being Latino cofounded the event in 2010. At the inaugural session, held in Dallas, Ruiz estimated that there were about 250 attendees and just four paid sponsors. This year, he said, there were more than 1,250 attendees and 50 paid sponsors. Some of the blue chip companies now allied with the event include Target, Ford Motor Co., McDonald's, Verizon, Toyota, Univision and Procter & Gamble.
It's a testament to the power of this group of consumers, now and going forward.
"In the battle for market share, Hispanics will decide the winner," Ruiz told me.
Right on the money. As major corporations slug it out to get that market share, this is the population that will determine the outcome.
Old-school marketers will tell you that this is not new. Many companies have long since discovered Hispanic consumers, and they've been eager to do business for the past couple of decades.
In fact, the amazing part is that there are still companies that approach the Hispanic market with a combination of ignorance, fear or hostility. The people in charge might be in denial about the strength of the Hispanic market — where spending is expected to hit $1.3 trillion this year. Or they mistakenly assume that Hispanics can't afford or be interested in their products. Or they're paralyzed because they don't know where to start or how to approach Hispanic consumers in a way that doesn't appear insulting — as if ignoring Hispanics wasn't the biggest insult of all.
Still, for smarter companies, the new dynamic — that Ruiz and Rios zeroed in on — is doing business with Hispanics on smartphones, laptops and tablets.
Forbes last year proclaimed the Hispanic market as "media's biggest prize," and Hispanics' interest in social media is particularly intense. Whether the site is Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Foursquare, Instagram or some other social-media campground, Hispanics can be found there in large numbers doing what they love to do — socializing with family, friends, colleagues, neighbors and complete strangers. With our family strewn across borders, and our social network scattered all over the globe, that's how we keep it together.
This is one reason social media is such a major component of Hispanicize. Ruiz is a true believer in the idea that you can change the way the world communicates.
"Social media radically altered how people interact with everything," he said. "Not only with each other but also government, businesses, institutions."
The most successful companies, Ruiz said, will use "multiple touch points" to reach Hispanic consumers. You heard the man. The nation's largest minority is on the move. So, from now on, if you want to sell us something or tell us something, you're going to have to keep up.
Ruben Navarrette is a syndicated columnist.


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Halladay's Groin, Bunt, HD Coverage
After the Phillies' 4-2 victory in the Fifth Game of the NLCS, Charlie Manuel matter-of-factly mentioned that Roy Halladay pitched from the second inning on with a mild groin strain suffered while "humping up" on a pitch to Buster Posey.
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Doc din't move 'cuz it was a blatant foul ball… tough luck Gigantes but he'd a' gotten that bunt down on the next pitch or else blasted a homer on the one following that, so get over it. We have, and now you're back in our park with an infield we know. Sincerely, good luck to you.
That's a funny time stamp in anybody's zone… it's now 0005hrs EDT and by the way? Chollie's only making an excuse for himself, pulling the pitcher in the 7th for the sake of potential runs when you know he doesn't like to do that (even less than he likes making excuses).
(And now they make me wait… time now 0008.
Keith, you won't get a complaint from me. I'll hear this from those who read my blog but Sandoval has been a liability at third base this year. Not only he couldn't find third base on Halladay's bunt, but he had a throwing error late in the game (though it didn't cost the Giants). At the plate, he's been inconsistent hitting into a ton of doubleplays. His weight (270 pounds plus) has the Giants' organization wondering if he'll be on the big club next year, in Triple A or somewhere else. Continue the great work here and with MSNBC!
I'm not going to make any excuses for our loss. We made mistakes, squandered opportunities, and the Phillies took advantage of scoring opportunities. Now we need to win one game in two chances on their field. They're a very good team, and we knew that coming into the NLCS.
Giants Baseball – Torture!
Another reason, I think, no one should really complain about the bunt is that Posey, gamer that he is, clearly recognized that the bunt was foul and jumped on it, obscuring the umpire's view, in the hope of 'stealing' an out at third. Nothing wrong with that — it's really a veteran move, not a rookie move — but in this case it kind of backfired.
I tend to believe that most games are NOT decided on any ONE play, and this was not one of the few exceptions to that belief. It is a team sport and it lasts 9 whole innings. Bad plays happen, and should be outweighed by good plays. So, you'll get no whining or complaining from me on last night's game. The Giants have been torturing us all season, but so far they win when it counts most. Knock. Okay, here it comes:
Note to Keith:
Since using my actual email address to post a comment the other day, I've been inundated with half-arsed fraud attempts such as:
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…as well as the usual Lagos attempts to gain my bank account #.
Making email addresses public is probably not the way to go.
As an "ardent fan" of MLB Network, I can't tell you how annoying I think Matt Vasgersian is. He can't get one sentence out without tripping all over the words or getting them in the wrong order: "And now to what happened in tomorrow's game, yesterday's game, that is, as the New York Rangers faced the Phillies, that is, the Yankees." Then he throws in some smart aleck impersonation, sneers at Harold Reynolds who is the main reason to watch MLB Tonight (Matt clearly doesn't get along with Harold), and does that weird exaggerated mouth movement of his. Greg Amsinger always sounds like he's about to say "Dude!" but he has turned out to be the best of the main sportscasters on MLB Network. But now that FOX has Mitch Williams– can they keep him?
Huh. Guess it was my fault. Stupid me.
@jimh… I hear you. I ended up opening a "junk account" because I got spammed so much after posting here… now I go into the junk account and clean it out every so often. I think every Nigerian-type scammer on the planet looks for addresses here! 🙂 Word to the wise….